 |  | Object Storage: Disrupting the Mainstream IT Landscape | | | Object storage is a disruptive technology that will move deeper into the mainstream IT landscape in the coming year and that is already creating significant revenue opportunities for service providers. As organizations struggle with the exponential growth of data, long-term management of that data and metadata will be a major driver for object storage. It will be pushed out of the "cheap and deep" archive space and into a viable use case for cloud and hosting providers to win more customer applications. | | | | |